The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo M. Frank.
And The Dead Shall Rise, The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank by Steve Oney was published by Pantheon Books in 2003, New York, 742 pages.
From 'Wrongly Accused, Falsely Convicted and Wantonly Murdered' by Leo Frank activist, Donald E. Wilkes, Jr., Professor of Law, University of Georgia School of Law:
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[Steve] Oney’s book (as literary critic Theodore Rosengarten reminds us) does not “come flat out and say who killed Mary [Phagan].” Although the book does assert that the weight of the evidence “strongly suggests Frank’s innocence,” it also claims that “the argument [over whether Frank or Conley is the guilty party]” will “never move beyond that of Conley’s word versus Frank’s.” On the other hand, in a recent press interview Oney stated that “I’m pretty certain that Frank was innocent,” and “I’m 95 percent certain Conley did it.” And in a short magazine article published in March 2004 Oney “declared [his] belief in Frank’s innocence.”
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Your assignment is to fact check this long book using the primary and secondary sources of the case.
What facts did Steve Oney leave out of his book?
What facts did Steve Oney falsify?
What errors did Steve Oney make in his book?
Use the primary and secondary sources available on archive.org to fact check Steve Oney's book about the Leo Frank Case.
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April 17, 2017
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Not as good as Mary Phagan Kean's book
For a better analysis of the Leo Frank trial, read these two books:
1. 'The Murder of Little Mary Phagan' by Mary Phagan Kean, 1989
2. The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews, Leo Frank, A Guilty Man Lynched, by The NOI, April 26, 2016